After finding an errant file of iPhone snapshots, re-posting this content from last summer @ “Santa Cruz flats,” northwest of Tucson, AZ, with more environmental context:
Lots of Greater Roadrunner activity:
Sequence of beautiful Inca Dove:
Here’s the view west along E. Sasco Road out of Red Rock, at the crossing w/ Santa Cruz River. (The puddle is the riverbed.) Good spot for birds w/ riparian vegetation, e.g., the Chat above.
“Bird of the day,” a surprise/great sighting of Bendire’s Thrasher:
White-winged Doves @ power line:
